It did have a Samuel Becket-like existential dreadfulness, I'll grant you. But being stuck in that rocket with that bore of a "comic relief" was worse.
The bore? You mean that fat crewman who loved his sonic gun?
Was it not a relief when he got absorbed and dissolved by the giant martian amoeba?
They used that very same scene in Journey To The Seventh Planet- in some editions.
The edition I got from NetFlix cut that shot out.